Music:
Among Us, written and performed by Salt of the Sound.
Among Us, written and performed by Simon Wester.
Secret Place, written and performed by Simon Wester  

You won't find many scriptures in the New Testament outside of the Gospels that point directly to the birth of Christ and the meaning behind what we celebrate at Christmas.
With that said, today, we find ourselves in the third of four of Paul's prison letters speaking to the people of Colosse and clearly communicating that Jesus is indeed the visible image of the invisible God.
Today we read one of the most explicit statements about the divine nature of Christ that is found anywhere in the bible.
Jesus is not only equal to God, as we read about in Philippians 2, but he is God.
As the visible image of the invisible God, he is the exact representation of God.
He not only reflects God, but he reveals God to us; as supreme over all creation, he has all the priority and authority.
Jesus came from Heaven, not from the earth's dust; therefore, he is the uncreated one and has authority over the world.
But he didn't think of equality with God as something to cling to (Phil 2). During Advent, we wait for God to come into humanity; we don't wait for a prophet or a good teacher; we are waiting on God, creator of Heaven and Earth, the one who spoke the world into existence, to come and dwell among us.
The church of Colosse had several misconceptions about Christ that Paul directly refuted; here are two of those. One, they said that Christ was not the Unique Son of God but rather one of many intermediaries between God and man. And two, they refused to see Christ as Salvation, insisting that people could find God only through special and secret knowledge.
This Advent, we now understand that we wait for the unique Son of God who is Salvation for all people!
Todays reading comes from Colossians 1:15-20
Christ Is Supreme
15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,[e]
16 for through him God created everything
in the heavenly realms and on earth.
He made the things we can see
and the things we can't see—
such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.
Everything was created through him and for him.
17 He existed before anything else,
and he holds all creation together.
18 Christ is also the head of the church,
which is his body.
He is the beginning,
supreme over all who rise from the dead.[f]
So he is first in everything.
19 For God in all his fullness
was pleased to live in Christ,
20 and through him God reconciled
everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth
by means of Christ's blood on the cross.

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